government of Iran

updated Fri. March 16, 2018

McMaster's ouster would follow that of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. It's been reported that both the outgoing State department leader and McMaster were in favor of keeping the Iran deal in place. Trump's nominee to replace Tillerson, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, compared the Iranian government to ISISÃÂ ...

An Iranian cinematic source, who goes by the alias Pouya and has a history of collaborating with Owj, told Al-Monitor, "Everyone knows that Owj is funded by the IRGC. The IRGC gets its budget from the government. The nature of this funding is no different from what is given to other organizations forÃÂ ...

... after Iran invited China and Pakistan to participate in development of the Chabahar port, India today said it was the prerogative of the Iranian government ... The first phase of the Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman was inaugurated four months ago, opening a new strategic route connecting Iran, India andÃÂ ...

The State Department on Thursday called the Iranian government's treatment of the news media "unacceptable," noting reports that journalists have been jailed and harassed. The State Department cited a United Nations Human Rights Council report released earlier this week on Iran that indicatedÃÂ ...

Apparently bowing to government pressure, Apple today blocked Iranian users from accessing its App Store. While the decision does not appear to be fully voluntary on Apple's part, it comes after nearly two years of smaller-scale removals of apps submitted by Iranian developers, which were previouslyÃÂ ...

The sons of an Iranian-Canadian university professor who died in a Tehranprison last month urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday to speak out publicly and pressure the Iranian government to free their mother. They also want Canada to seriously investigate their father's arrest and death.

Iran (MNN) - We've been hearing how the Church in Iran is the fastest growing church in the world. But the shape of the Church is actually underground and in the form of numerous, individual house churches--and the Iranian government wants to shut them down.

For Mandaeans in Iran, forced to survive in an underground economy and largely denied access to universities and governmentjobs, immigrating to America offered a chance to break free of systemic oppression. Zhinous Yahaghi accompanied her parents and brother on the journey to San Antonio fromÃÂ ...

Following private sector pressure and a rise in public demand, import tariffs on laptops will be reduced to 5% in the coming months, the head of Tehran's Information Technology Union announced. Mehdi Mir-Mehdi Komijani added that laptop tariffs, which were increased in the past four years from 5% toÃÂ ...

Telegram Black, Mobogram, and Telegram Farsi are some of the potentially dangerous apps with links to the Iranian government. Roughly 40 million Iranians once used the Telegram app. The app's popularity was engendered by the ease in which Iranian citizens could keep in contact with friends andÃÂ ...

Iran vice president Massoumeh Ebtekarafter's pledge the government is against using force to make women wear the mandatory headscarf comes after a spate of protests stirred debate over the hijab. Massoumeh Ebtekar told a press conference in Tehran that every country has a dress code: "There is noÃÂ ...

The image was one of four shared by the Iranian president's special assistant for citizens' rights affairs depicting scenes where women were experiencing ... From 'manspreading' to cat calling, a poster campaign highlighting street harassment has gone viral in Iran after a top female member of the IranianÃÂ ...

A promise unkept by Iranian president Rouhani powerfully caused the infinite chants, deaths, arrests, and tortures that citizens have been swept by in past weeks. The people of Iran have agreed that these issues can no longer be ignored, and have aggravated the government with their numerous riots andÃÂ ...

The governments of Turkey and Iran are both considering developing their own government-backed digital currencies, following on the heels of the Feb. ... Last November, the Iranian cyberspace authority, the High Council of Cyberspace (HCC), "welcome[d] bitcoin" and announced that they were workingÃÂ ...

It strains credulity to believe that any Iranian president could be a "centrist" in the Western sense of a political moderate who supports a liberal, secular government, even if he wanted to, given the Iranian political system is wholly subservient to the religious authorities under Iran's velāyat-e faqīh theocraticÃÂ ...

Now they face possible deportation back to Iran, where rights advocates say they face potential retaliation or imprisonment by the regime in Tehran for ... "It criticizes the Iranian regime, encouraged the protests, but refuses to provide safety to those who flee and are not safe from the Iranian government.".

Late last year, there were reports that the Iranian government was keen on the bitcoincryptocurrency as a way of bypassing economic sanctions. However, the government has now said this is not the case at all. According to the independent Iranian news site Iran front page, the country's central bank hasÃÂ ...

Since 2012, Human Rights Watch has called on the Iranian government to amend its penal code to impose an absolute prohibition on the death penalty for child offenders, as required by international law. human rights Watch has also called on Iran's judiciary to impose an immediate moratorium onÃÂ ...

While thousands of protestors were flooding the streets, and engaging in violent clashes with security forces which resulted in the deaths of more than 20 people, the Iranian government suspended all use of social media and messaging apps that would enable protestors to organize or distribute informationÃÂ ...

Movahedi's defiant act came on the eve of national anti-government protests in Iran fueled by widespread economic, social and political discontent. She quickly disappeared after her images went public, and it was later reported she had been arrested. But Movahedi's act of bravery has inspired dozens ofÃÂ ...

In a telephone news conference from Washington, Mr. Genser said the order had overruled a recommendation by the Iranian government's medical examiners, who had concluded that Mr. Namazi needed at least three months of leave. "Iran's decision against the advice of its own doctors to send BaquerÃÂ ...

The government of Iran published a three-year old study on Sunday night illustrating growing public distaste for the obligatory hijab just days after police ... "And I'm sure if you ran the survey again today, that number would be even higher," one Iranian woman, who wished to remain anonymous, told DW.

It began on the social media account of a Brooklyn-based Iranian journalist named Masih Alinejad. In 2014 ... "I was a political reporter, but the women in Iran forced me to care about the issue of personal freedoms," she told me. ... "We used to fear the government, now it's the government that fears women.".

Having survived popular protests across major cities in Iran, Iranian leaders are now turning to the tools that helped protesters organize and coordinate large-scale demonstrations against the government, which continued for more than a week before the government suppressed them. A senior IranianÃÂ ...

Iranian government says it is ready to establish universities in Nigeria to meet the demands of students seeking higher education in the West African country. Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria, Morteza Rahimi Zarchi said through signing of new deal, the country would be able to open some branches of IranianÃÂ ...

One month ago, Iran witnessed a surprising wave of anger by protesters who took to the streets and defied the Iranian government and security ... Although the anti-government protests were originally for economic reasons, politics emerged during the protests and political slogans were repeated.

anti-government protests began in Iran in late December 2017, which spread rapidly throughout the state. So far over 20 people have been killed and hundreds were arrested. The government deployed the Revolutionary Guards to quell the situation, but it has yet to put the minds of the Iranian people atÃÂ ...

"Iran presents a challenge in the region maybe, but dialogue also is a part of resolving this issue." The Saudi Arabiangovernment, a supporter of Hariri and a major source of investment for the small country, is archly opposed to Iranian influence in Lebanon and the Middle East. This escalating conflict ofÃÂ ...

But many in America and in Europe have maintained their silence by fearing that siding with the dissidents would neither help fighting the Iranian regime nor bring a real democratic government in the country. That is why Barack Obama also maintained his silence when the protests broke out in Iran sevenÃÂ ...

18 (Xinhua) -- Iran appreciates China for its efforts to search the missing Iranian sailors aboard the oil tanker Sanchi, Iranian Minister of Labor, ... of the Iranian government and people, extend sincerest gratitude to the Chinese government and people, especially to the Chinese personnel who have riskedÃÂ ...

A young woman raises her fist aloft as Iranian students clash with riot police in Tehran during antigovernmentprotests that rocked Iran for around two weeks ... Since 1979, power has been monopolized by an older generation of leaders who shaped Iran's Islamic system of government, known as velayat-eÃÂ ...

They are more likely to receive instructions from the government, than write something by themselves. Trolls, who are usually young people, get certain remuneration for their job. Unlike Russian trolls, Iranian trolls have a limited range of techniques. For example, in the case of Iran, we cannot talk aboutÃÂ ...

The crackdown showed that the Iranian government has developed an increasingly sophisticated ability to restrict, block, and monitor internet, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Center for human rights in Iran (CHRI). "As the government shut down access to the global internet,ÃÂ ...

Some claimed online that government employees had been instructed to take part, something Iranian media did not discuss. The English-language Press TV broadcast Wednesday's pro-government rallies live, saying they sought to "protest the violence that has taken place over the last few nights in cities.

Trump earlier had tweeted that the Iranian government was repressive, "brutal and corrupt" and that it was "TIME FOR CHANGE!" Leaders in Europe have offered more measured responses. Several nations in the region have begun investing in Iran since sanctions were lifted following the 2015 nuclearÃÂ ...

Reformists, led by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani thought they had found the solution to Iran's economic problems by reaching a landmark nuclear agreement--the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)--with the United States and other world powers in 2015. However, expectations for foreignÃÂ ...

We return now to the protests in Iran. And we take a closer look at whether the Iranian government is united in how to respond with Abbas Milani. He's director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. Mr. Milani, thank you very much for joining us. Before I ask you about the government'sÃÂ ...

The pro-government rallies held Saturday were organized in advance to commemorate mass demonstrations held in 2009 to challenge the pro-reform protests. An eyewitness in Tehran said nearly 2,000 people had gathered peacefully for a pro-government rally. State-run Iranian broadcasters showedÃÂ ...

anti-government protests have continued in Iran for a third day, with reports of demonstrations in many cities despite warnings from authorities. At Tehran University ... The Iranian authorities are blaming anti-revolutionaries and agents of foreign powers for the outbreak of protests. The communicationsÃÂ ...

The pro-government rallies held Saturday were organized in advance to commemorate mass demonstrations held in 2009 to challenge the pro-reform protests. An eyewitness in Tehran said nearly 2,000 people had gathered peacefully for a pro-government rally. State-run Iranian broadcasters showedÃÂ ...

As the pace of demonstrations has slowed in recent days, the government has removed its block on Telegram. Iranian officials had previously warned the company that the app would not go back online in Iran until "terrorist content" had been taken down. At the height of the protests, some TelegramÃÂ ...

The exact number of detainees across Iran is still unknown. Lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi claimed Tuesday that roughly 3,700 people had been arrested. That number is far higher than the 450 people Iranian authorities previously said were detained after protests began December 28. US officials had putÃÂ ...